SaraB's 183G Rimless AGE Downgrade

[SaraB]

Little update while I'm on vacation and have a few moments to spare before beach time.

The Marginalis had decided after a week of picking at my rocks in the display that my acan collection was delicious. I quickly removed all the acans from the display and within an hour it was picking around the new clams shell. It then ate prepared food and lights out. The next day it was going full bore on the clam, so the fish was netted out and placed in my 45G cube until I decided what to do with it. I "persuaded" Gary to give it a try in his NPS tank since he really likes butterfly fish, so that is where it went last night. Hopefully it adapts quickly to another tank and enjoys the flood of food it will get!

I also was quite worried about 2 of the new potters wrasses. The large male pictured above was out right away, but the 2 small females remained hidden for well over a week and I was worried that they were goners. Luckily both appeard within a day of each other and they now are out daily and great eaters!

 

[DanW]

Love the M. geoffroyi Sara, one of my favorite fishes. Hope you and Jon are having a great time on vacation. You got some pretty decent weather.

 

[SaraB]

Thanks Dan! When we saw your potters wrasse last summer, I had to have some myself in my tank!

Yes, we lucked out with the weather and are having a great time, thanks!

 

[gmantis]

No updates.Still working on this project?

 

[fishmonger007]

Wow very nice tank and pics!

 

[SaraB]

Wow very nice tank and pics!

Thank you ... I can't take credit for the incredible fish pics as that is my friend Gary's work!

No updates.Still working on this project?

Guess it's been a while since an update. My systems are always a work in process!

Here's a shot into my fishroom. I'll try and post more pics in there next week when I'm back home.

In the fishroom I have it vented to the outside with an exhaust fan. I have a humidistat that controls that exhaust fan based on the percentage of humidity in the room.

I've also run controllers for several years, but I prefer to run all my lighting on 24 hour heavy duty timers. I have multiple circuts run into my fishroom and didn't want to put the entire load on one circuit on a controller.

I have 4 of these timers in the fishroom and I have 3 in operation currently.

 

[Dr. Fish]

Those fish pics are stunning.

 

[biecacka]

tank looks amazing!
corey

 

[SaltwaterAdict]

Any updates on this awesome looking tank!

 

[SaraB]

Thanks! No updates on the tank to report as I'm just gliding through summer ;-)

 

[deepblue68]

awesome build and good luck with the tank. i couldnt help but notice your doors in your house,what color stain did you use ?iam remolding and like the color.

 

[Vadimshevchuk]

Congratulations! You have had your flavo's for two years now.

 

[NVfishman]

Hi I was looking up fishrooms to copy for my 400 gallon tank move to a single car garage, and I went through your old tank build.

I really liked those surge tanks did they work as planned or were there any issues while they were running on the big tank?

thanks

 

[SaraB]

Hi I was looking up fishrooms to copy for my 400 gallon tank move to a single car garage, and I went through your old tank build.

I really liked those surge tanks did they work as planned or were there any issues while they were running on the big tank?

thanks

Here's a link to my build thread on the 268G tank that ran the surges. The video of the surges start on page #17 and there are posts after this of the modifications I made along the way to make them run better.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1502153&page=17

 

[Mrs. Music]

thanks for the link.

 

[myaerica]

Iv'e always wanted to make A surge tank,but how does it work with out the auto topoff going off.Hope that makes sense.

 

[SaraB]

You would have to adjust the type of top-off system you use. I used a gallon per day system rather than one that runs on a float type set-up.